# Finance Director

**Company:** [Bretton AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/bretton-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $250k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, FP&A, Budgeting, Forecasting, financial infrastructure, accounting knowledge, Quickbooks, Rippling, orb
**Posted:** 2026-07-21

> First full-time Finance hire at AI fintech startup. Own end-to-end finance function including strategic FP&A, financial modeling, forecasting, accounting infrastructure setup, and act as thought partner to CEO on cash, headcount, and fundraising.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Act as a strategic thought partner to the CEO and leadership team on cash burn management, headcount planning, and fundraising preparation.
- Architect the future of Finance at Bretton: Develop a short-, medium-, and long-term vision for the department, ensuring the team and processes scale efficiently as the business grows.
- Deeply understand our business: Immerse yourself in our business model, customer base, partnerships, and overarching company vision.

### Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Optimize pricing and margins: Collaborate actively with the sales and product teams to refine pricing strategies and improve profit margins.
- Align finance with product and engineering: Partner closely with engineering, product, and revenue teams to understand product lifecycles, business milestones, and data availability.

### Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Own end-to-end FP&A: Build the financial models, forecasts, and dashboards that provide leadership with a clear, real-time view of business performance.
- Lead budgeting and forecasting: Drive our annual budgeting process and maintain accurate rolling forecasts as the business evolves.

### Accounting & Financial Operations
- Build and manage the finance tech stack: Oversee our end-to-end systems, migrating us to new tools when necessary to improve efficiency.
- Streamline AP & AR: Own Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, aggressively automating processes wherever possible.
- Manage the accounting foundation: Partner with our outsourced accounting team to ensure clean data flows into the ledger, and determine the right time to bring the function in-house.
- Prepare for scale: Lay the accounting groundwork now so that future complexities (like technical revenue recognition) become manageable when they arise.

## What We’re Looking For

### Must-Haves
- 5–10 years of finance experience, with a mix of FP&A, strategic finance, or operational finance. Demonstrated success at a high-growth startup, investment banking, and/or consulting helps.
- Strong enough accounting knowledge to avoid building technical debt. You don't need to be a controller, but you need to know what you don't know, and when to go to experts for help and advice.
- Experience setting up or significantly improving financial infrastructure from an early stage.
- Hands-on and self-sufficient: you're not waiting to hire a team to get things done - you’ll hunt data down on your own.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with imperfect information.
- Based in San Francisco [or willingness to relocate/travel].

### Bonus Points
- Experience in fintech, regtech, or other regulated industries.
- Experience at a high-growth Series B+ startup.
- Familiarity with tools like QuickBooks, Orb, Rippling, or similar finance/HR platforms.
- Experience working alongside outsourced accounting teams and knowing how to get the most out of them.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base salary + meaningful equity
- Comprehensive healthcare, 401k matching, commuter benefits
- Unlimited PTO + holidays, unlimited sick days
- Flexible leave options
- Working late? We've got you covered with DoorDash and an Uber home

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